On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of supernova 2018 GV from 2018-2019. It was seen in barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...